Natalya Antonova

[Natalya Antonova @Autonomtashkent]

Something so odd and interesting about the image of Lenin in late Soviet visual art...

[Caucasus Visuals @caucasusvisuals]

Lenin in Arizona, 1979.

Artist: Sergei Arutyunyan

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"The City of Frunze Is 100 Years Old". Excerpt from 1978 Soviet TV film.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Photo by Yuri Rybchinsky, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, 1976.

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Soviet TV towers postcard, 1980s.

[Natalya Antonova @Autonomtashkent]

Perestroika art did not simply epitomise a neo-romantic revival of avant-garde sensibility at the twilight of Soviet modernity; it subjected to aesthetic scrutiny the normative—rather than the negative—construction of sexuality.
https://t.co/Rmj9CB6VaU

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Gorbachev wading through a field during a visit to Kazakhstan, 1991. Photo: Boris Babanov

[gianni @GianChiani06]

Lenin-Poem, 1961 (litografia) Josep Renau

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

"The leader of the World Revolution Lenin and the leader of the East Narimanov", Soviet carpet, 1920

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Glory to the man of creative work!" Soviet poster, 1974.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Soviet Uzbekistan. Excerpt from "Samarkand motives" documentary film, 1971

[Lyubov Popova @artistpopova]

Portrait of a Philosopher

[USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr]

Mosaic of Lenin at the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (from 1984).

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Soviet mosaic on a residential building in Almaty. Photo by Yuri Kuydin, Kazakhstan, 1981.

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iranian Carpet celebrating the successes of Soviet space travel, made by members of Iranian Tudeh Party (1965)

[Kazimir Malevich @artistmalevich]

Workers of all countries unite! #artbots #malevich

[Kazimir Malevich @artistmalevich]

Suprematic dress #artbots #malevich

[Natalya Antonova @Autonomtashkent]

@TuttReal Curiously enough, both Tutt and Dugin overlook modernity as a contradictory phenomenon, one that is forward-looking and backward-looking, progressive and barbarous, smacking of futurity and death.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"We will turn the whole world into a blooming garden" Soviet porcelain plate, 1921.

[Natalya Antonova @Autonomtashkent]

Lenin - the Masses (Zinovii Tolkachev, 1928, lithography)

[Natalya Antonova @Autonomtashkent]

Naive and subversive

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Lenin in Paradise" painting by Vladimir Vasilkovsky USSR, 1973

[Natalya Antonova @Autonomtashkent]

It's a challenge to think out loud about the artist's oeuvre in becoming. I can only hope that I've captured, partially and open-endedly, the artist's truth and her method as they seem to be unfolding now.
https://t.co/4u7BrKfJRd